Dimitri Villard

Early in his career, Dimitri Villard founded Jet Set Records, one of the memorable rhythm & blues labels of the era. Later, he co-founded the first pay cable television company to operate in California which he sold to Times Mirror. Since 1980, he has produced a number of motion pictures, including In Love And War, directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Sandra Bullock and Chris O'Donnell (New Line); Timewalker, starring Ben Murphy (New World); Once Bitten, starring Jim Carrey and Lauren Hutton (Goldwyn); Death of an Angel, starring Nick Mancuso and Bonnie Bedelia (Twentieth Century-Fox); Frankenstein General Hospital, starring Mark Blankfield (New Star); Hide And Go Shriek (New Star); Purgatory, starring Tanya Roberts (New Star); Easy Wheels, starring Paul Le Mat and Eileen Davidson (Fries); Flight of the Navigator, directed by Randal Kleiser (Disney) and Say Nothing, starring Nastassja Kinski and William Baldwin (HBO). He was credited as a writer on In Love And War and Once Bitten (Jim Carrey's first movie role). He also co-founded Image Organization, an international film sales agency. From 1997 to 2000 he was a Director of Société Générale's Entertainment and Media Investment Banking practice, where he was involved in numerous financing and merger transactions, including the sale of Trimark to Lionsgate, and Polygram to Universal. From 2004 to 2008, he was Chairman of DAX Solutions, a provider of digital production services to the motion picture industry, and from 2009 to 2013, he was CEO of Peer Media Technologies, the leading supplier of anti-piracy services and business intelligence to the major studios, MPAA and recording industry. He is developing a number of projects for film and television. Dimitri Villard graduated from Harvard University, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Lampoon.